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who who man

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who and. You've all seen bits
and pieces of art construction.

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Maybe you watched the market street to get
seen the completed Albany Ariel's been

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inconvenienced in downtown Oakland
or on Shattuck Ave in Berkeley past

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or in the crossroads

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and figured all those bulldozers were just
levelling another hillside for another

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freeway. But whatever
you've seen or bypassed

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or wondered about you've only seen a small
part of a seventy five mile system now

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being built in three counties.

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We want you to see some facts about your
new in urban rapid transit system not just

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read about it. So watch and we'll
keep quiet. Most of the time.

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First let's take a look from the air the
completed Albany area structures part of

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the Richmond Berkeley mine.

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The same type of aerials under construction
in Hayward a section of the Fremont

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Oakland line

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and incidentally even as you watch this
film all the construction you're looking at

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has progressed what you're seeing is
how it looked the day we filmed it.

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And the day our cameras saw this was several
months ago entrance to the downtown

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Oakland subway

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like merit title outfall.

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Up Broadway

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and the cross over to the Berkeley
in Contra Costa line to whom

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foods a

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food.

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Now let's look more closely first getting
ready for the Transbay to linking Oakland

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and San Francisco which will enter the bay
at the site of the Oakland gold cross

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under the bridge

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and enter the market street subway
under the Ferry Building pilings

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that marked the old ferry
boat slips must be pulled up

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and hauled away

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when.

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High pressure hoses loosened
dirt around the base of the

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old San Francisco wards
dating back to the time

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or ferry boat commuting are removed to
make way for high speed trains which will

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make the trip from Oakland to
San Francisco in eight minutes

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the tube itself will consist of fifty
seven sections like this one ready for

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launching at Bethlehem shipyard.

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Each double barreled section is
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and weighs some eight hundred tons

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when it slides into the base after

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launching the section is nudged to an
outfitting dock where reinforced concrete is

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applied to the interior walls.

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Until its weight reaches twelve thousand
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ship in the early morning hours

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when traffic is light on the bay the
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slung beneath that giant catamaran barge

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and gently lowered into place along a shallow
trench raged across the floor of the

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bay hydraulic couplers block each section
to its make their main water tight

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and the process is repeated
for the fifty seven sections

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and four long years while section after
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Bart's work progresses in more than
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Demolition to make way
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cut and cover in downtown Oakland
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and sewers for the San Francisco subway.

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But one substantial contribution to the
system is being made far enough from your

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front door with no inconvenience at all

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but Kaiser plant in Napa is making steel
tunnel liners for the twenty one miles of

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subway almost one third
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First a gang banger cuts the
five ton sheet of steel

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a giant magnet lifts the cut piece after
the inside. I'd seen so well that.

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This section will be bent

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who has

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and the final large range undergoes
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the bench sections go to the huge welding

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or treatment and constant
inspection finally milling

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and grinding to complete
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the use that been stored
ready to be placed

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and barked subway closer to home

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and part of your surface
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These bulldozers were leveling a hillside
for a new freak way not only relocated

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but white to accommodate far
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It's estimated

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that this portion of the conquered the
Berkeley line will save taxpayers millions

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of dollars because of the joint use of a
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and the California Division of highways.

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What about the route from a rented to
Berkeley over the hills where there is no

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transportation corridor even a narrow
one. The answer is through these hills.

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We can fly from the east portal Orinda
side to the west portal in a few minutes.

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It's taking two years
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but your BART train will make the
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Still now the highlight of our Get ready
year breaking through from the east

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and west portal the Berkeley Hills
tunnel a BART staff member watched the

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breakthrough.

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He reported Thursday Feb twenty third one
nine hundred sixty seven eleven pm work

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goes out tunnel will hold through sometime
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twenty fourth to ten A.M.

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Deafening dinner jumbo read through drills
holes in face for first of what was to

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be three blasts during the trip two thirty
AM during a pause speculation on part of

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the miners as to who will win the three
hundred dollar pool predicting exact minute

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a breakthrough sixty men
five dollars apiece.

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I know might set off in small charges for
safety of both crews working so close

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together folded be a long nights

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or am much prove cleans up face from last
blasts discouraging reports tunnelers

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have to install two more tunnel rings
before another black inspects am citing

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unnamed tunnelers of open a three
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and can talk to the air in the crew serious
work with prior rods enlarges hold a

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size of a football in the last blast neatly
open entire top of the face both crews

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move sharply to shore up ceiling and then.

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After four hundred forty six days
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Exchange places in their
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Saturday Feb twenty fifth ten A.M.

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Alameda encountered pass the county officials
park directors engineers members of

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the press down yellow slickers take the
first ride all the way to the fourth

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longest vehicular tunnel
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And meet in a modest ceremony deep in
the Berkeley Hills marking the holdings

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through. And

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when your BART train emerges
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It will blind long another medium strip

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that of a grove Shafter freeway so-called
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system.

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BART trains will enter the downtown Oakland
subway from the grove Shafter freeway

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median and you will enter the same subway
from Southern Alameda County at Eighth

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and Fallon street a few blocks from Bart's
headquarters building an automatic train

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control complex nerve center for the
computerized seventy five mile network

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work started on this subway in late fall
nine hundred sixty five a year ago this

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section of the subway
had progressed this far

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to what today the structure
is ready for tracks trains

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and ultimately you know

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what really aerials really look like
completed in landscape like this

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before and one half mile
test track between Concord

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and Walnut Creek.

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We can't show you the
Market Street Subway yet

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but if you don't like temporary
detours traffic jams

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and gaping holes wait construction of
the downtown Oakland subway makes a

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few detours seem like a picnic
and Berkeley pedestrians

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and motorists are already living with huge
excavations as general manager be arse.

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Stokes' told the Commonwealth Club in April
one thousand nine hundred eighty seven

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the next two years or so
will be years of travail.

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Of digging dirt of erecting
steel pouring concrete.

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I pledge

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that everyone associated with the district
will do his level best to deliver the

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system to you as nearly on
schedule as is humanly possible.

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We've said

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that it will be the finest in the world
we promise you it will be no less than

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that.

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Today more than half the seventy five
mile system is under construction.

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But tomorrow next month next year
as heavy construction increases.

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It will find more detours not fewer
more blocked off traffic lanes

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and excavations all of which
are necessary inconveniences

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but happily temporary.

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So when you see this the

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or the

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or this is the

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you remember this daily
reality of inconvenience

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is all part of getting ready getting
ready to bring you the speed the safety

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but comfort convenience

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and the economy of the world's newest
intervene rapid transit system.